Political sunlight streamed down on pallid Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King during the conference at Quebec. Thousands of pictures in thousands of newspapers showed him basking between Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt. The broad Prime Minister beamed, thinking perhaps that Canadians who have been showering cold criticism on his wartime administration would now see him in the proper light: as a statesman helping to make big Allied decisions with Churchill and Roosevelt.
Canadians were unimpressed.
As soon as the Quebec sunshine faded, Mackenzie King faced his gravest home-front crisis of the...
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